Features of Professional Wellbeing of Teachers

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AbstractThe phenomenon of professional wellbeing is included in the context of research on psychological wellbeing. The researchers point out the importance of the professional and labor sphere of human activity for ensuring the general state of subjective wellbeing. At the same time, the ability to maintain a state of subjective professional wellbeing is the main condition for the successful work of a teacher. The purpose of this study was to study the characteristics of the experience of professional wellbeing of teachers working in educational organizations of different levels. The study involved 65 teachers engaged in professional activities in preschool educational institutions and secondary schools (M = 31.3; SD = 1.2; 28% men). Methods were used: the psychological wellbeing of K. Riff in the adaptation of N. N. Lepeshinsky, the professional demand for the personality of E. V. Kharitonova, B. A. Yasko, as well as statistical methods (descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U test, Spearman rank correlation coefficient). The differences between the experience of psychological wellbeing and the professional demand for teachers engaged in professional activities in educational institutions of different levels were established. The interrelationships of psychological well-being and professional demand of the individual in the group of teachers were also found. The prospects for further development of this topic are the expansion of the level of educational institutions, the study of factors that affect the level of psychological wellbeing of teachers and determine the level of professional demand for an individual, the study of the factor structure of professional wellbeing of teachers.KeywordsPsychologyTeachersPsychological wellbeingProfessional wellbeingProfessional demand of the individual